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CONTAINING 



Many ol' the most Valuable Recipes known 
Also, Dr. Lamotte's Celebrated Cure for 
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book except the Egyptian Perfume and Austin's Persian Starch 
Enamel, both very saleable articles to families. Neither do we 
supply any of the ingredients for manufacturing. 



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Rkader — In publishing this Book of Secrets, we do it with the firm belief 
■that it will be the means of doing much good to the thousands that hare never 
•before had an opportunity to obtain them. Many of these Secrets have already 
been put in market, and are now having very large sales. They are, of course, 
sometimes called by different names than those given in this book. Whoever 
puts any of these valuable Medicines in market can give them such names as 
zhej think most attractive, or that might have a tendency to add to their sale*, 
•ifrom the sales of some of these Secrets hundreds of thousands of dollars have 
t>een made, and they are now so firmly established in this country, and also iu 
Europe, that they will probably be sought after as long as time lasts. 

If you desire to commence business for yourself, select from this Book one 
■of these Secrets, one that you think would be the most saleable in your locality, 
'ind manufacture it in small quantities at first. As your salts improve, and yoa 
*ee your way more clear to increase your - business, invest more largely in goods. 
Sell to families and stores, and if you have the means at your command, leave it 
«>n commission and advertise it in every way that you can. Talk about your 
,. cods whenever you have an opportunity, and by so doing you will get others 
inquiring about them, and you will s»>on have a business started, with an incom* 
■jrom it that will surprise you. The Patent Medicine business is the most profit- 
able, and the surest return, (if properly advertised,) of any business that you can 
enyaure in. If you are unable to put up any of these valuable Remedies, but 
have the desire to do so, we would suggest that you write out the Recipe for 
.makui/ the World's Fair Premium Vinegar, and take a sample of vinegar witL 
/you in a. bottle tu show nUirukeepers and families, and soil them the Secret e# 



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manufacturing this excellent vinegar for 50 cents. Any person tasting this arti- 
cle will willingly pay you the price you charge for the Recipe. Persons keeping 
provision stores will make money by purchasing this article from you. Tots 
oan sell 20 Recipes a day, at 50 cents each, ($10 a day, all profit.) If some ob- 
ject to paying your price, do not refuse to take less, rather than not 6ell to them. 
You cai. use any other Secret that you wish in the same manner, but we mention 
the vinegar Recipe because that is an article that can be 6old to almost every- 
body. 

If you do not wish to leave home, sell all you can in your own town, and then 
advertise in your local newspaper, telling them what you have for sale, and what 
it will do. The med^ines will always sell. Invalids abound in all communi- 
ties, and the Remedies you have in this Book of Secrets are the best the woritf 1 
•ver produced. After y«u have got a little start, advertise more largely, and yow 
will find your profits steadily increasing, and by continued exertion, and coi> 
•tant effort, you will «stablish yourself in a permanent and profitable business. 



EECIPES. 



To Cure Bleeding and Blind Piles.— This is th« celebrated Frencfe 
Surgeon (Dr. Chovazzi's) great cure for Piles. If the piles be very hot and pain- 
ful, they should be well fomented by means of a sponge, with hot camomile and 
poppy -head tea, three times a day, for half an hour each time, and at bed-time 
a hot white bread poultice should be applied. If the heat be not great, and if 
the pain be not intense, the following ointment will be found efiicacious : pow- 
dered opium one scruple ; camphor, (powdered by means of a few drops spirits of' 
wine,) half a drachm; powdered galls one drachm; spermaceti ointment, three 
drachms. — Mix — To be applied night and morning. The bowels should be kept 
gently opened by one or two teaspoonfuls of compound confection of senna, takes 
every morning. The tea is made from 4 poppy heads and 4 oz. oammoinile blows, 
boiled in two quarts water half an hour. This is a valuable Recipe. 

To Cure Sick Headache. — Gather sumac leaves in the Summer, and 
#pread them in the sun a few days to dry. Then powder them fine, and smoke, 
morning and evening for two weeks, also whenever there are symptoms of ap- 
proaching headache. Use a new ulay pipe. If these directions arc adhered to 
this medicine will surely effect a permanent cure. j, 

■)To Cure a Consumptive Coilf/li. — Take three pints rain water, half 
pound raisins chopped fine, three tables poonfull flax seed, sweeten to a syrup 
▼ith honey, and boil down to a quart. Add three teaspoonfull of extract of 

ems. Take a tul-lespooiifull eight times a day. 



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To Cure Baldness. — Cologne water two ounces ; tincture »f cantharid«s 
two drachms ; oil of lavender or rosemary, of each ten drops. These applica- 
tions must be used twice a day for three or four weeks, but if the scalp become 
■ore, they must be discontinued for a time, or used at longer intervals. 

"When the hair falls off from diminished action of the scap, preparations of 
oantharides are excellent. The following will cause the hair to grow faster than 
any other preparation: beef marrow soaked in several waters, melted and 
strained, half a pound ; tincture of cantharides (made by soaking for a week one 
dram of powdered cantharides in one ounce of proof spirit,) one ounce ; oil ot' 
bergamot 12 drops. 

Whooping Cough. — Dissolve a scruple of salt of tartar in a gill of water ; 
add to it ten grains of cochineal; sweeten it with sugar. Give to an infant & 
quarter teaspoonfull four times a day; two years old half a spoonful ; from four 
years a tablespoonful. Great care is required in the administration of medicines 
to infants. We can assure paternal inquirers that the foregoing may be de- 
pended upon. 

Liquid Glue. — Dissolve one ounce of borax in a pint ef boiling water; 
add two ounces of shellac, and boil in a covered vessel until the lao is dissolved. 
Yhis forms a very useful and cheap cement, and withstands damp much better 
than the common glue. This is superior to any Prepared "Glue in market. 

Phosphorus Paste for Destroying Rats and Mice. — Melt one 
pound of lard, with a very gentle heat, in a large mouthed bottle or other vessel 
plunged into warm water; then add half an ounce of phosphorus, and one pint 
of proof spirit ; cork the bottle securely, and as it cools sh;;ke it frequently, so as 
to mix the phosphorus uniformly; when cold pour off the spirit (which may be 
preserved for the same purpose,) and thicken the mixture with flour. Small 
portions of this paste may be placed near the rat holes, and being luminous in 
the dark it attracts them, is eaten greedily, and is certainly fatal. Put it up in 
small tin boxes, and sell at 25 cents each. There is a firm in this city that has 
made over thirty thousand dollars manufacturing this article. 

Dr. Parker's Great Cure for Diavhoea & Cramps in Stomach. 
Two parts tincture camphor, tincture opium, tincture African cayenne, essence 
peppermint, one part tincture rhubarb. Mix. Dose — Half teaspoonful for an 
adult, and from five to ten drops for a child. Repeat the dose in fifteen min- 
utes if the patient is not relieved. Bathe the bowels with strong vinegar. This 
is one of the most valuable Secrets that this book contains. It has saved hun- 
dreds of lives. If you manufacture this article and s<41 a few bottles in any lo- 
cality, its great virtues will soon spread far and wide, and you will havo 
orders irom families, druggists, and others. Put it up to retail for 25 cents. 

World's Fair Premium Vinegar. — Take five gallons lukewarm w 
water, '.dd one pound cream tartar, two pounds allum, one gallon of common 
molasses, half a gallon of whiskey, one gallon of yeast. Let all stand in the 
warm water one hour to dissolve, then add cold water. Let stand three days 
with the bung open. This makes forty-tw? gallons. La all cases the barrel 
•hould be full. This Secret can be sold to grocers and storekeepers all over the 
United States. 

Drops i/. — Take one pint of bruised mustard seed, two handsfull of bruised 
Uorseradish root, 8 ounces of lignum vitse chips, and 4 ounces of bruised Luduj 



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hemp root. Put all the ingredients in seven quarts of cider, and let it simmer 
erer a glow fire until it is reduced to 4 quarts. Strain the decoction, and take a 
wineglassfull four times a day, for a few days, increasing the dose to a small 
teacupfull three times a day. After which use tonic medicines. This remedy 
has cured cases of dropsy in one week's time which had baffled the skill of many 
eminent physicians. For children the dose should be smaller. 

J ndelible Marking Ink Without a Preparation.— Dissolve sep- 
erately one ounce of nitrate of silver, and one and a half ounces of sub-carbonate 
•f soda (best washing soda) in rain water. Mix the solutions, and collect and 
wash the precipitate in a filter; whilst still moist rub it up in a marble or hard 
wood mortar with three drachms of tartaric acid ; add two ounces of rain water, 
mix six drachms white sugar, and ten drachms of powdered gum arabic, half an 
eunce of archil and water to make up six ounces in measure. It should be put 
up in short drachm bottles, and sold at 25 cents. This is the best ink for mark- 
ing clothes that has over been discovered. There is a fortune in this recipe, as a 
pood marking ink is very saleable. 

Austin's I ersian StarcJv Enamel. Melt over a slow 

fire 5 pounds refined parrafine, and when it is all melted add two hundred drops 
oil of citronelli. Place several new round pie pans, well oiled with lard oil or 
sweet oil, on a level table, and pour about six tablespoonsful of the Polish into 
each pan. Let them stand until thay are cool enough to lift into a pail or basin 
•f water; let the pan float on the water a moment so as to cool the bottom, and 
then submerge or press down the pan into the water, until it is cool enough to 
stamp the Polish out into cakes. This must be done before it gets too hard, and 
therefore it will require close watching. Have a round tin stamp made to cut 
cakes about the size of a candy lozenge. Stamp them out, and let them cool well 
before taking them out of the pans. Put it up in square paper boxes, (nine cake* 
in each, retail at 5 cents a box.) Thirty cakes, in oval boxes, 25 cents. The 
cost of the 25 cent boxes, filled ready for market, is about 5J-2 or 6 cents ; the 
small size boxes about 1J^ cents. They are also put up in 10 cent boxes. 
which is a very saleable size. Directions* — To a pint of boiling starch stir in 
two of the cakes or tablets, or three to a quart. This gives an elegant lustre to 
linen or muslin, and imparts a splendid perfume to the clothes, and makes the 
iron pass very smoothly over the surface. It requires but half the ordinary la- 
bor to do an ironing. It is admired by every lady. It prevents the iron from 
adhering to the surface, and the clothes remain clean and neat much longer than 
by any other method known. Over six thousand stores are selling this article in 
New York and Brooklyn. For Ladies, we know of no business so suitable 
and pleasant to engage in. If you desire further information write your ques- 
tions briefly and we will answer them at once. 

To Remove Grease or Stains from Clothing. — Ordinary Benzine 
is as good a grease eradicator as is now used. Put up in four ounce bottles and 
label it " The Nation's Grease Extractor," and sell for 20 or 25 cents. Benzine 
generally costs about 15 cents a gallon. Dip the corks in wax. 

Pomatums. — For making pomatums, the lard, fat, suet, or marrew u«ed, 
■net be carefully prepared by being melted with as gentle a heat as possible, 
skimmed, and cleared from the dregs which axe deposited on standing. Take 



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mutton .suet, prepared as above, one pound; lard three pounds; carefully in.»Ued 
together, and stirred constantly as it cools, two ounces oil bergamot being added 
just after lifting the pomade from the fire. Hard Pomade. — Mutton »u<jt and 
lard each one pound ; white wax, four ounces ; oil of bergamot one ounce. Put 
up in short, large mouthed bottles, and sell at 15 or 20 cents. 

Cement for Broken China , Glass, &c. — The folio-wing recipe, from 
experience, we know to be a good one, and, being nearly colorless, it possesses 
advantages which liquid glue and other cements do not: — Dissolve half an ounce 
of gum accacia in a wineglass of boiling water ; add plaster of Paris sufficient to 
form a thick paste, and apply with a brush to the parts required to be cemented 
together. 

Sore atid Weak Eyes. — Sulphate of zinc three grains, tinctura of opium 
ten drops, water two ounces. To be applied three or four times a day. 

Another. — Dissolve five grains acetate of morphia, ten grains sugar of lead, 
and six grains sulphate of zinc, into five ounces roBe water. Bathe the eyes freely 
three times a day. For Scrofulous Sore Eyes, take blue violets, dig them up, 
top and root, wash clean, dry them, and make a tea. Drink several times a day, 
wetting the eyes each time, and it will soon effect a cure. 

Cut or Bruise. — Apply the moist surface of the inside coating' or skin af 
the shell of a raw egg. It will adhere of itself, leave no scar, and heal without 
pain. 

Wens. — Take the yolks of eggs, beat np, and add as much fine salt as will 
dissolve, and apply a plaster to the wen every ten hours. It cures without 
pain or any other inconvenience. 

Sprained Ankle or Wrist. — Wash the ankle very frequently with cold 
■alt and water, which is far better than warm vinegar or decoctions of herbs. 
Keep the foot as cool as possible to prevent inflamation, and sit with it elevated 
en a high cushion. Live on low diet, and take every day soma cooling medicina 
■nch as epsom salts. It cures in a few days. 

Best Blacking for Boots and Shoes.— Ivory black one and a half 
ounce, molasses one and a half oz. sperm oil three drachms, strong oil of vit- 
riol three drachms, common vinegar half a pint. Mix the ivory black, molasses 
and vinegar together, then mix the sperm oil and oil of vitriol separately, and 
add them to the other mixture. 

Freckles. — Muriate of ammonia half a drachm, lavender water two drachms, 
rain water half a pint. Applied with a sponge two or three times a day. 

To take Marking Ink out of Linen. — A saturated solution of cya- 
nuret of potassium, applied with a camel's hair brush. After the marking ink 
disappears, the linen should be well washed in cold water. 

Hair Dye. — This preparation has held the market in Europe far several 
years, and gives entire satisfaction. Solution No. 1. — Hydrosulphuret of ammo- 
nia one ounce, solution of potash three drachms, distilla<? or rain water ona o». 
(all by measure). * Mix, and put into small bottles, labelling it No. X.& Solutioa 
No. 2. — Nitrate of silver one drachm, rain water two ounces. Dissolved and la- 
belled No. 2. Directions. — The solution No. 1 is first applied to tha hair with * 
tooth brush, and the applicatiop nontinued for fifteen or twenty minutaa. Thea 



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let the hair dry a shcrt time. Tba solution No. 2 is then brushed over, a comb 
deing used to separate the hairs and allow the liquid to come in contact with 
5-very part. Care must be taken that the liquid does not come in contact 
with the pkin, as the solution No. 2 produces a very permanent dark stain on all 
euhstances with which it comes in contact. If the shade is not sufficiently deep, 
the operation may be repeated. The hair should be cleansed from grease before 
using the dye. This can be easily done by washing the head in clear water add- 
ing thereto about two tablespoonsfull of ordinary washing soda. Dry the hair 
well with a towel. This Dye (No. 1 and No. 2, put up in a box together,) is sold 
at i)0 cents. A fine business can be built up by manufacturing and selling thia 
Hair Dye. 

Sore Throat. — Pour a pint of boiling water upon twenty or thirty leaves 
of common sage, let the infusion stand for half an hour. Add vinegar sufficient 
to make it moderately acid, and honey according to the taste. It must be used 
several times a day. Another excellent remedy is a strong solution of salt and 
water. Gargle every hour. A wet towel worn on the throat at night will as- 
sist in effecting a cure. For a Putrid Sore Throat use a gargle of brewers' yoast 
six times a day, also bind thin slices of salt pork on the throat. 

Di/spepsia. — One of the first things to be attended to is to regulate the 
bowel", which in this disease are always in a costive state. The best means of 
keeping them loose is the eating of a handful of clean wheat bran, once or twice 
a day. This is the most simple and efficacious method of cleansing the stomach. 
It maybe eaten irom rne hand with a few swallows of water to wash it down, 
also use, to recrulate the stomach and bowels, the daily use of common salt, in 
teaspoonful doses, uissolved in a half tumblerfull of water, taken in the morning 
fashing. Avoid rich diet, and use brawn bread instead of that made of super- 
fine flour. 

The Best Pill in the world.— Two pounds of aloes, one pound of gam- 
b ■■ ■:•>. four ounces of the extract of colouynth, half a pound of castile soap, two 
fluid ounces of oil of peppermint, and one fluid drachm of cinnamon. Mix and 
form into pills, These pills are the most celebrated of any in the world, and the 
fortunate manufacturer has accumulated over a million dollars from their sale. 

Toot/iache. — Tako equal parts of camphor, sulphuric ether, ammonia, lauda- 
jiam, tincture cayenne, and one-eighth part oil cloves. Mix well together. 
Saturate with the liquid a small piece of cotton, and apply to the cavity of the 
diseased tooth, and the pain will cease immediately. Put up in long drachm. 
bottles. Retail at 25 cents. This is a very saleable preparation, and affords a 
large profit to the manufacturer. 

Cure of Wart.*.— The easiest way to get rid of warts is to pare off tha 
thickened skin which covers the prominent wart ; cut it off by successive layers, 
and shave it tfA you come to the surface of the skin, and till you draw blood in 
two or thres places. Then ruu the part thoroughly over with lunar costic, and 
one effective operation of this kind will generally destroy the wart ; if not, yo» 
put off the black spot which has been occasioned by the caustic, and apply it 
again ; oe vou may apply acetic acid, and thus you will get rid of it. Care must 
h- !,.U.Mi in applying thcan acid*, not tc rno them on the etciji around the wart 



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To Destroy Flies in a room take half & teaspoonful of black pepper, on* 
4easpoonful of brown sugar, and one tablespoonful of cream, mix them well tc*» 
.gether, and placo them in a room on a plate, where the flies aro troublesome, ani 
they will soon disappear. 

Preserving Fggs. — The following mixture was patented several year* 
*go by Mr. Jayne, of Sheffield, England. lie alleged that by means of it h* 
could keep eggs two years. A part of his composition is often made use of— 
perhaps tha wholo of it would be better. Put into a tub or vessel one bushel of 
quick lime, two pounds of salt, half a pound of cream of tartar, and mix the saroa 
•together, with as much water as will reduce the composition, or mixture, to ths* 
consistence that it will cause an egg put into it to swim with its top just above 
i,he liquid ; then put and keep the eggs therein. 

French Polish for Hoots and Shoes. — Mix together two pints of 
.he best rinegar and onu pint of soft water ; stir into it a quarter of a pound erf 
,glue, broken up, half a pound of logwood chips, a quarter of an ounce of finelj 
.powdered indigo, a quarter of an ounce of the best soft soap, and a quarter of 
-an ounce of isinglass. 1'ut the mixture over the fire, and let it boil tenor fifteen 
minutes. Then strain the liquid, and bottle and cork it. When cold, it ia fit 
for use. The polish should be applied with a clean Eponge. 

To Remove Water Stains from Black Crape.— When ± drop of 
water falls on a black crape veil or collar, it leaves a conspicuous white mark. 
To obliterate this, spread the crape on a table, (laying on it a large book or paper 
to keep it steady,) and place underneath the stain a piece of old black silk. With 
% large camel's hair brush dipped in common ink, go over the stain ; and then 
wipe off the ink with a small piece of old soft silk. It will dry immediately, 
and the white mark will be seen no more. 

To Cure Pains in the Feet occasioned by Walking. — If your 

fee. become painful from walking or standing too long, put them into warm salt 
and water, mixed in the proportion of two large handfuls of salt to a gallon of 
water. Sea water, made warm, is still better. Keep your feet and ankle is 
the water until it begins to feel cool, rubbing them well with your hands. 1 hen 
wipe them dry, and rub them long and hard with a coarse towel. Where f he 
feet are tender, and easily fatigued, it is an excellent practice to go through this 
practice regularly every night, also on coming home from a walk. With perse- 
verance this has cured neuralgia in the feet. 

Fever and Ague. — First clear the bowels with the fluid extract of senna 
■and Jalep 2 drms., infusion of cloves 2 ounces. Mix. To be taken at a draught. 
In the cold stage give hot drinks, and try to excite warmth. In the hot ague 
.give cooling drinks. Then give quinine one scruple, alcohol 4 o&s. sulphuric 
acid five drop3 — (mix) in two tablespoonful doses every hall hour , at the same 
time give five drop doses of tincture or fluid extract of veratum, and rub the 
.patient with dry towels. In the intermission give three grain doses, one* ia 
■four hours, rfhd continue it a fortnight after the cessation of the attacks. ^ 

jThe following is known as the Cuban Remedy for chills and fever Just be- 
•fore the approach of the fever spread two plasters about two inches wide com- 
posed of black pepper bruised fine, (not ground,) mixed into a paste with the 
■white of an egg. Immediately before the fever comes bind them, on the iuaid* 



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*f the wrists, and lie down. Do not remove then until the fever has passed off* 
If the fever is not entirely broken by the first application, apply fresh plasters off' 
*he same the next time the fever comes on. 

To Make your Teeth as White as Snow.— Take one part chloride off 
lime, and fifteen parts of prepared chalk, adding half an ounce of pulverized pe— 
mvian bark, and a few drops of otto of rosea. Use it thoroughly morning and* 
evening. 

To Make Champagne Cider for Four Cents a Gallon. — Take 
ifive gallons lukewarm water, add one gallon common molasess, three pounds of 
brown sugar, one gallon of vinegar, one g'allon of yeast, quarter ef a pound of 
tartaric acid. Let all stand in the warm water to dissolve one hour, then add 
•old water. Let stand forty-eight hours to work, with bung out. This makes- 
<orty-two gallons. In all cases the barrel should be full. To keep for a length- 
•f time add one pound of mustard. Bottle and seal it well. 

To Drive Cockroaches from your Dwellings. — Strew pulverized* 
belebore root on the hearth, floor, or places they frequent at night. In the mor- 
ning the roaches will be found either dead or dying, for such is their avidity for 
tbie plant, that they never fail to eat it when they can get it. Black pulverized 
hellebore may be had at all herb shops. Put up in small tin boxes, and retail atr 
twenty-fire cents. 

To Cure Deafness. — Obtain pure pickerel oil, and apply four drops- 
morning and evening to the ear. Great care should be taken to obtain oil that 
10 perfectly pure. 

To Clear your Dwellings from Bed Bugs. — Corrosive sublimate*- 
And the white of an egg, beat together, and laid with a feather around the crevi- 
©es of the bedsteads and the sacking, is very effectual in destroying bugs in 
them. Tansy is also said to be very effectual in keeping them away. Strew it 
ander the sacking bottom. The best exterminator is black pulverized hellebore 
root ; it destroys them. Place it where the bugs will be likely to crawl. ( 
& 

To Make Paint for One Cent a Pound.— To one gallon of soft hot 

water, add four pounds sulphate zinc, (crude.) Let it dissolve perfectly, and a- 
sediment will settle at the bottom. Turn the clear solution into another vessel. 
To one gallon of paint, (lead and oil) mix one gallon of the compound. Stir it- 
into the paint slowly for ten or fifteen minutes, and the compound and paint 
will perfectly combine. If too thick, thin it with turpentine. This recipe has- 
been sold to painters as high as $100 for the privilege to use the same in their- 
businese. 

To Malce Hens Lay the whole Year. — Give each hen half an ounce 
of fresh meat every day, and mix a small amount of red pepper with their food 
daring the winter. Give them plenty of grain, water, gravel and lime, and al- 
low no cocks to run with them. £ 

iHow to Raise a Mustache in Six Weeks*— Tract, of benzoin comp. 
two drachms, tincture Spanish flies two drachms, castor oil six ounces, oil berga- 
««ot one draohm, oil of verbena fifteen drops, strong alcohol nine ouno» ». Ciren- 
lation should be stimulated first by friction with a rough towel, Apply to the> 
whiskers and mustache morning and evening far four w«nk*. 



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To make Cucumber Vines bear Five Crops. — When a encumber 
la taken from the vine let it be cut with a knife, leaving about the eighth of an 
inch of the cucumber on the stem, then slit the stem with a knife from its end ta> 
the vine, leaving a small portion of the cucumber en each division, and on eaok 
separate slit there will be a new cucumber as large as the first. 

Silver Plating Fluid. — Take one ounce of precipitate silver to half an 
ounce of cynate of potash, and quarter of an ounce of hypersulphate of soda ; pui- 
all in a quart of water, add a little whitening, and shake before using. Apply 
with a soft rag. Put up in ounce bottles, and retail at 25 cents. This secret i* 
worth a $100 to an agent, to sell to families. 

Chapped Hands and Li]>s. — One-quarter pound of honey, and one- 
quarter pound of sal soda, with one pint water. Apply often. 

Pulmonic Wafers for Coughs. — White sugar three-and-a-half pound*, 
tincture or syrup of ipecac two ounces, antimonial wine one ounce, morphine- 
five grains, dissolved in a tablespoonful of water, with ten drops sulphuric acid, 
half an ounce tincture blood root, one ounce syrap of Tolu. Add these to the 
eugar, and mix the whole mass as the confectioners do for lozenges, and cut 
into lozenges of the ordinary size. Use from six to twe've of these in twenty- 
ftrar hours. These wafers are equal to any made, and are generally sold at high 
Tices. 

yet vsus Headache. — Extract hyoscymus five grains, pulverized cam- 
>hor five grains. Mix. Make four pills, one to be taken when the pain is most 
severe in nervous headache. Or three drops tincture nux vomica, in a spoonful 
of water, two or three times a day. 

Felons. — One tablespoonful of red lead, and one tablespoonful of castile soap, 
and mix them with as much weak lye as will make it soft enough to spread like 
a salve, and apply it on the first appearance of the felon, and it will cure in ten 
or twelve days. 

Restore Ey sight. — Let there be an occasional pressure of the finger on th* 
ball of the eye. Let the pressure always be from the nose and towards the tem- 
ples, and wash the eyes three times a day, in cold water. If this simple advice- 
is followed, the day is not far distant when partial blindness shall disappear 
from the world. 

Enlarged Veins of the Leg. — Apply firmly strips of leather spread 
with soap plaster. Generally it is better to support the whole limb with a 
strong calico bandage, which should be applied before getting out of bed. It i»- 
well to use friction, in connection with iodine ointment. 

Costiveness. — Common charcoal is highly recommended for costiveness. 
It may be taken in tea or tablespoonful, or even larger doses, according to the 
exigencies of the case, mixed with molasses, repeating it as often as necessary. 
Bathe the bowels with pepper and vinegar. Or take two ounces rhubarb, add 
ane ounce of rust of iron, infuse in one quart of wine. Haifa wineglassful every 
morning.' •*' Or take pulverized blood root one drachm, pulverized rhubarb one 
drachm, castile foap two scruples. Mix and roll into thirty-twc pills fc» Ts 
one merning and night. By following these directions it may perhaps save yox< 
from a severe attack of the pile . or some other kindred disease. 



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Washing Made Easy.— To save your linen and your labor. Pour on 
fcalf a pound of soda two quarts of boiling water, in an earthenware pan; take 
half a pound of soap, shred fine, put it into a saucepan with two quarts of cold 
-water, stand it on a fire till it boils, and when perfectly dissolved and boiling, 
add it to the former. Mix it well, and let it stand till old, when it has the ap- 
pearance of a strong jelly. Let your linen be soaked in water, the seams an<l 
any other dirty part rubbed in the usual way, and remain till the following 
morning. Get your wash boiler ready, and add to the water about a pint basis 
full; when lukewarm put in your linen, and allow it to boil twenty minutes. 
Rinse it in the usual way, and that ia all which is necessary to get it clean, and 
to keep it in good color. The above receipt ia invaluable to housekeepers. Give 
it a trial. ' 

Dye Silk Lilac. — For every pound of silk take one and a half pound of 
archil, mix it well with the liquor, make it boil a quarter of an hour, dip the 
silk quickly, then let it cool, and wash it in river water, and a fine half violet, 01 
lilac, more or leas full, will be obtained. 

To take Ink Stains out of Mahogany. — Put a few drops of spirit* 
«f nitre in a teaspoont'ul of water, touch the spot with a feather dipped in the 
mixture, and on the ink disappearing, rub it over immediately with a rag wet in 
•old water, or there will be a white mark which will not bo easily effaced. 

To Clean Marble. — Take two part* oommon soda, one part of pumice- 
atone, and one part of finely powdered chalk ; sift it through a fine sieve, and 
mix it with water ; then rub it well over the marble, and the stains will be re- 
moved; then wash the marble over with soap and water, and it will be as clean 

as it was at first, i 

Paint. — To get rid of the smell of oil paint plunge a handful of hay into a 
pail of water, and let it stand in the room newly painted. 

To Remove Offensive Breath. — For this purpose almost the only 
substance that should be admitted at the toilette is the concentrated solution of 
chloride of soda. From six to ten drops of it in a wineglass full of spring water, 
taken immediately after the operations of the morning are completed. 

In some cases, the odor arising from carious teeth is combined with that oi 
the stomach. If the mouth be well rinsed with a teaspooonful of the solution of 
the chloride in a tumbler of water, the bad odor of the teeth will be removed. 

White Metal. — This is a splendid article for spoons, castors, ornaments^, 
and in short articles of every description. It closely resembles silver, and may 
be used with great profit by the manufacture of an infinite variety of commer- 
cial articles of almost every description. 

The alloy is 10 oz. of lead, 6 oz. of bismuth, 4 drachms of antimony, 8 oz. of 
brass, and 10 oz. of block tin, all melted together. This can be run into mould* 
or hammered into any shape, as it is perfectly malleable. 

^Iiingwomi. — The head is to be washed twice a day with soft soap and 
warm soft water ; when dried the places to be rubbed with a piece of linen rag 
dipped in ammonia from gas tar ; the patient should take a little sulphur and 
.molasses, or some other genuine aperient, every morning ; brushes and eombe 
ib oh Id be washed every day, and the ammonia kept tightlv corked. 



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Imitation Pure Silver so perfect in its resemblance that no chemist 
living can detect it from pure virgin silver. It is all melted together in a cruci- 
ble. Quarter of an ounce of copper, two ounces of brass, three ounces of pure 
silver, one ounce of bismuth, two ounces of saltpetre, two ounces of common salt, 
ane ounce of arsenic, one ounce of potash. Add a little borax to make it run 
easy. 

Windsor Soap. — Tin? is made with lard. In France they use lard with 
a portion of olive or bleached palm oil. It is made with ono part of olive oil to 
nine of tallow. But a great part of what is sold is only curd f tallow) soap, and 
scented with oil of caraway and bergamot. The brown is colored with burnt 
sugar, or umber. 

Money Soap. — White cured soap \% pounds, brown Windsor soap hall 
pound. Cut them into thin shavings, and liquefy as directed above for scented 
soaps ; then add four ounces of honey, and keep it melted till most of the water 
is evaporated ; then remove fs-om the fire, and when cool enough add any essen- 
tial oil. According ^ Piesse the honey soap usually sold consists of fine yellow 
soap, perfumed with (ft» of citronella. 

Martin's Splendid Blade Ink. — Boil logwood 22 pounds, in enough 
*"ater to yield fcarteen gallons of decoction. To 1000 parts of this decoction, 
when cold, add ono part chromate of potash. The mixture is to be well stirred. 
The proportion® are to be carefully observed, and the yellow chromate, not the 
bichromate, »*.ployed. This ink possesses some great advantages, to adhere 
strongly to paper, bo that it can neither be washed off by water, nor even altered 
hj weak acids, to form no deposit, and not to be in the least acted upon by steel 
pens. 

Red Writing Ink. — Best ground Brazil wood four ounces, diluted aeetie 
acid one pint, alum half an ounce. Boil them slowly in a covei-ed tinned copper 
or enamelled saucepan for one hour, strain, and add one ounce gum. 

Yellow Ink. — Gamboge triturated with water, and a little allum added. 

Green Ink. — Rub three and a half drachms Prussian Blue, and three drms. 
of gamboge, with two ounces of mucilage, and add half pint of water. 

Gold and Silver Ink. — Fine Bronze powder, or gold or silver leaf, 
ground with a little sulphate of potash, and washed from the salt, is mixed with 
water and a sufficient quantity of gum. 

Sympathetic or Secret Inks. — The solutions used should be so nearly 
colorless that the writing cannot be seen till the agent is applied to render it 
visible 

Boil oxide of cobalt in acetic acid. If a little common salt be added, the wri- 
ting becomes green when heated ; but with nitre it becomes a pale rose color. 

A weak solution of sulphate of copper. The writing becomes blue when ex- 
posed to the vapor of ammonia. zs 

Manifold Paper.- *A process by which several letters can be written at 
one time. I' • common! j .mown as copying paper. Mix lard with blaok lead 
or lampblac) into a stiff paste, rub it over tissue paper with flannel, and wipe 
off the superfluous quantity with a soft rag. These sheets alternated with blaok 



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carbon paper, and written with a hard pencil, will iiTodv.ee several copies of » 
ietter at once. 

To Make a Harrel of Good Soap. — Dissolve fifteen pounds of bar 
*oap in fifteen gallons boiling water, and let it get cold. Cut up the soap in sli- 
ots. When cold it will be thick like jelly. ',. 

Dissolve fifteen pounds of sal soda in fifteen gallons more of boiling water* 
which will take three minutes, then add to this composition six pounds of un- 
packed lime ; let these articles boil together twenty minutes. When cold and. 
settled, turn off this fluid, and stir it up with the soap, be careful not to disturb 
the sediment, then add three pints of alcohol, and stir all the articles together. 

Wash Equal to Paint. — Take a half bushel of unslaeked lime, and 
Black it with boiling water, corer it during the process. Strain it, and add a 
a peck of salt dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice boiled to ;■» 
thin paste put in boiling hot, half pound of Spanish whiting, and one pound of 
clear glue (Unsolved in warm water. Mix and let it stand several days. Keep 
it in a kettle, and put it on as hot as possible with a brush. 

The above is the receipt used for the President's house at Washington. It i» 
•aid to look as well and last as long as oil paint, on wood, brick or stone. 

To Clean Kid Gloves. — Make a strong lather with curd soap and warns 

water, in which steep a small piece of new flannel. Place the glove on a flat, 
unyielding surface— such as the bottom of a dish, and having thoroughly soaped 
the flannel (when squeezed from the lather.) rub the glove till all dirt be re- 
moved, cleaning and re-soaping the flannel from time to time. Care must be 
token to omit no part of the glove, by turning the fingers, &c. The gloves must 
be dried in the sun, or before a moderate fire, and will present the appearance of 
old parchment. When quite dry, they must be gradually pulled out, and will 
look new. 

31 hit Vinegar. — Put into a wide-mouthed bottle, fresh nice clean mint 
leaves enough to fill it. loosely : then fill up the bottle with good vinegar, and 
after it has been stopped close for two weeks it is to be poured off clear int® 
another bottle, and kept well corked for use. Serve with lamb when mint can- 
not be obtained. 

Excellent Hair Wash. — Take one ounce of borax, half an ounce of cam- 
phor, powder these ingredients very fine, and dissolve them in one quart boiling 
water; when cool the solution will be ready for use; damp the hair frequently. 
This wash effectually cleanses, beautifies and strengthens the lutir, preserves the- 
color, and prevents early baldness. The camphor will form into lumps after 
being dissolved, but the water will be sufficiently impregnated. 

Chilblains, Sprains, <£'C. — One raw egcr well beaten, half a pint of vine- 
gar, one ounce spirits of turpentine, a quarter of an ounce of spirits of wina, & 
quarter of an ounce of camphor. These ingredients to be beaten well together,. 
then put in a bottle and shaken for ten minutes, after which, to be corked down 
tightly to exclude the Air. In half an hour it is fit for use. To be well rubbed 
in, two, three, or four times a day. For rhumutism in the head, to b« rubbed at 
the back of the neck and behind the ears. In chilblains this remedy it to be 
used before they are broken. 



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The Egyptian Perfume. — In manufacturing this article, follow th* 
same directions, and use the same ingredients aa are used in Austin's Persian 
Starch Enamel, published on another page of thia book, with the simple 

alteration of using the oil of jassemine instead of the oil of citronella. In perfu- 
ming use one ounce oil of jassemine to every pound and a half of parranne. 
Stamp out in cakes one inch long, half inch wide, and one-eighth of an inch lb 
thickness. Put each cake into a small sliding box, and sell at ten cents each. 
It is yery saleable, and you can make money fast by putting this up. It is new, 
and has not been introduced as yet in many localities, and if you are first in the 
field you are sure to do a large business at it. Giro it a trial. 

Summer Champagne. — To four parts of seltzer water add one ounce 
•f Moselle wine, or hock, and put a teaspoonful of powdered sugar into a wine- 
jrlaasful of this mixture ; an ebulition takes place and you hare a sort of cham- 
pagne w hich is more wholesome in hot weather than the genuine wine known 
by that name. 

Deafness- — Take three drops of a sheep's gall, warm, and drop it into the 
•»* on going to bed. The ear must be syringed with warm soap and water in 
the morning. The gall must be applied for three successive nights. It is only 
efficacious when the deafness is produced by cold. The most convenient way of 
warming the gall is by holding it in a silver spoon over the flame of a light. 
The above remedy has been frequently tried with perfect success. 

Gout. — This is Col. Birch's receipt for rheumatic gout or acute rhuruatism, 
•ommonly oalled in England the " Chelsea Pensioner." Half an ounce of nitre 
(saltpetre,) half an ounce of sulphur, half an ounce of flower of mustard, half an 
ounce of Turkey rhubarb, quarter of an ounce of powdered guaicum. Mix, and 
take a teaspoonful every other night for three nights, and omit three nights, in 
a wineglassful of cold water, water which lias been previously well boiled. 

Life Hells. — An excellent and cheap life belt, for persons proceeding to sea, 
bathing in dangerous places, or learning to swim, m:iy be thus made: — Take a 
yard and three-quarters of strong jean, double, and dbide it into nine compart- 
ments. Let there be a space of two inches after each third compartment. Fill 
the compartments with very fine cuttings of cork, which can be had at any cork- 
eutting establishment. Work ilot holes at the bottom of each compartment to 
let the water drain out. Attach a neck-band and waist strings of stout boot- 
web, and sew them on strongly. 

Bleeding from the Nose, from whatever cause, may generally be stepped 
bp putting a plug of lint into the nostril ; if this does not do, apply a cold lotion 
to the forehead ; raise the head, and place both arms orer the head, so that it 
will rest on both hands; dip the lint plug, slightly moistened, into some pow- 
dered gum arabic, and plug the nostrils again ; or dip the plug into equal parts 
of powdered gum arabic and alum. An easier and simjder method is to place a 
piece of writing paper on the gums of the upper jaw, under the upper lip, and 
lot it remain there for a few minutes. 

Poisons. — As a general rule, give emetics after poisons that cause sleepi- 
aeis and raving ; chalk, milk, butter, and warm water, or oil, after poisons that 
a&uae vomitings and paia in the stomach and bowels, with purging; and whew 



14 YOUNG'S BOOK OF SECRETS. 

there is no inflamation about the throat, tickle it with a feather to excite vomik> 
lug. Always send immediately for a medical man. 

Hloths. — A very pleasant perfume, and also preventive against moths, may 
be made of the following ingredients ; — Take of cloves, carraway seeds, nutmeg, 
mace, cinnamon, and Tonquin beans, of each one ounce ; then add as much Flor- 
entine orris-root as will equal the other ingredients put together. Grind the 
whole well to powder, and then put it in little bags, among your clothes, &c. 

Bald Heads. — A most valuable remedy for promoting the growth of the 
hair, is an application once or twice a d<»y, of wild indigo, and alcohol. Take 
four ounces of wild indigo, and steep it about a week or ten days in a pint of 
alcohol , and a pint of hot water, when it will be ready for use. The head must 
be thoroughly washed with the liquid, morning and evening, application being 
made with a sponge or soft brush. Another excellent preparation is composed 
©f three ounces of castor oil, with just enough alcohol to cut the oil, to which 
add twenty drops tincture of cantharides, and perfume to suit. This not only 
softens and imparts a gloss to the hair, but also invigorates and strengthens the 
roots of the hair. 

Dry Cough. — Take of powdered gum arabio half an ounce ; liquorice-juioe 
half an ounce. Dissolve the gum first in warm water, squeeze in the juice of a 
lemon, then add of paregoric two drachms ; syrup of squills one drachm. Cork 
all in a bottle, and shake well. Take one teaspoonfull when the cough is troub- 
elsome. 

Corns. — Boil a potato in its skin, and after it is boiled take the skin and 
put the inside of it to the corn, and leave it on for about twelve hours ; at the 
end of that period the corn will be nearly cured. 

Black Silk Reviver. — Boil logwood in water half an hour, then simmei 
the silk half an hour, take it out and put into the dye a little blue vitriol, of 
green copperaB ; cool it and simmer the silk for half an hour. Or, boil a hand* 
ful of fig leaves in two quarts of water until it be reduced to one pint; squeze 
the leaves, and bottle the liquor for use. When wanted sponge the silk with it. 

Biles. — These should be brought to a head by warm poultices of cammomile 
flowers, or boiled white lily root, or onion root, by fermentation with hot water, 
or by stimulating plasters. When ripe they should be destroyed by a needle or 
lancet. But this should not be attempted until they are fully proved. 

Bunions may be checked in their early development by binding the joint 
with adhesive plaster, and keeping it on as long as any uneasiness is felt. The 
bandaging should be perfect, and it might be well to extend it round the foot. 
An inflamed bunion should bo poulticed, and larger shoes b-9 worn. Iodine 13 
grains, lard or sperm.aoeti ointment half an ounce, makes a capital ointment for 
bunions. -It should be rubbed on gently twice er three times a day. 

Cautions in Visiting the Sick. — Do not visit the sick when you are 
fatigued, or when in a state of perspiration, or with the 6tomach empty — for in 
such conditions you are liable to take the infection. When the disease is very 
contagious, take the side of the patient which is near to the window. Do not 
enter the room the first thing in the morning before it has been aired ; and whea 



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jou conic away take some food, change your clothing immediately, and expos* 
the latter to the air for some days. Tobacco smoke is a fine preventive of ma- 
laria. 

To Destroy the Taste of Medicine. — Have the medicine in a glass 
as usual, and a tumbler of water by the side of it, then take the medicine and 
retain it in the mouth, which should be kept closed, and if you then commence 
drinking the water the taste of the medicine is washed away. Even the bitter- 
ness of quiuine and aloes may be prevented by this means. 

Cheap and Good Vinegar.— To eight gallons of clear rain water add 
three quarts of molasses ; turn the mixture into a clean tight cask, shake it well 
two or throe times, and add three spoonsful of good yeast, or two yeast cakes, 
place the cask in a warm place, and in ten or twelve days add a 6heet of common 
brown wrapping paper, smeared with molasses, and torn into narrow strips, and 
you will soon have good vinegar. The paper is necessary to form the " mother" 
or life of the vinegar. 

Cancer. — The following is said to be a sure cure for cancer: — A piece of 
sticking plaster is put over the cancer, with a circular piece cut out of the cen- 
tre, a little larger than the cancer, so that the cancer and a small circular rim 
of healthy skin next to it is exposed. Then a plaster, made of chloride of zinc, 
blood root and wheat flour, is spread on a piece of muslin, the Bize of this circu- 
lar opening, and applied to the cancer for twenty-four hours. On removing it, 
the cancer will be found burned into and appear of the color and hardness of an 
old shoe sole, and the circular rim outside or it will appear white and parboiled, 
as if scalded by hot steam. The wound is now dressed, and the outside rim 
soon separates, and the cancer comes out in a hard lump, and the place heals up. 
The plaster kills the cancer, so that it sloughs like dead flesh, and never grows- 
again. The remedy was discovered by Dr. King, of London, and has been used 
by hira for several years with unfailing success, and not a case has been knows* 
of the reappearance of the cancer when this remedy has been applied. 

Dr. Lam otte's Great French Remedy for Consumption.— 

This wonderful Medicine was obtained by us from the wife of a Missionary to 
Africa. For four years she herself was a sufferer in America. Her husband- 
was called into the missionary field, and the West coast of Africa was selected 
I his destination. She accompanied him to that far distant land, as she had 
t,een given up by physicians here as incurable. Shortly after their arrival in 
Africa, they became acquainted with Dr. Lamotte, a noted Physician, who was 
then connected with a French exploring expedition. She at once put herself 
under his treatment, as he gave her assurances that she could be cured, notwith- 
standing she was then apparently in the last stages of that fearful and fatal' 
disease — seated Consumption, lie gave her but one kind of medicine all through 
his treatment, and the first bottle that she took so changed her feeling*, und so 
completely astonished her by its powerful effects upon her system, that she con- 
tinued it 8 use for two mouths, at which time she had gained nineteen pound* 
of fleshr^ind found herself perfectly cured.* On inquiry she found he had cured 
hundreds of cases of Consumption, wiih ihe same Remedy, in France and Ger- 
many, before he joined the exploring expedition to Africa % After she Leuanta 
perfectly restored to health, she assisted hor husband in his labor* among lb* 



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natives for throe years, and they then returned to this country. 8h« la now ti* 
picture of health. Previous to her leaving Airio* the obtained from Dr. La 
11 i >tte the prescription of the medioine ha used in performing his wonderful 
cures of Consumption. She has kindly furnished it to ua for publication, and 
we are thankful that we have it in our power to give to the consumptive a pre- 
scription that has never yet failed in restoring the patient to perfect health. 

Receipt for ihe " Baume de Saute " or Balm of Health. — 
Extract of French fungas root half ounce ; tincture of cantharia plant 2 drachms ; 
•extract chinch on a two drachms ; loaf sugar one pound ; pure port wine one half 
pint; one ounce each of sarsaparilla, hoarhound and boneset. Mix in an earthen 
vessel holding two quarts all of the articles except the three last named, then 
place the sarsaparilla, boneset and hoarhound in a vessel containing one quart 
of water, and boil down to a pint, strain, and when cold add the liquid to the 
other ingredients above named. Bottle and keep corked. Dose — One large 
tablespoonful three times a day, at least an hour before meals, except at night, 
when the dose should be taken before retiring, and not before supper. 

Spirl a stamped envelope find we will send the full particulars printed to you. 

This wonderful medicine Is the only certain cure for Consumption, Asthma 
and Bronchitis a* yet discovered by medical men, and we know that consump- 
tives have been restored to perfect health by this valuable remedy. 

Druggists usually charge for this prescription $3 or $3.50. Some of the arti- 
cles are imported from France, and if you cannot get them from your druggist, 
we will willingly send them to you all prepared. We have done this for others, 
and the medicine is working miracles in the way of euros. Since parties have 
sent to ua for the medicine, we have had a praotical Chemist prepare it in quan- 
tities, so that we could send it to any person cheaper than they «an get it pre- 
pared at a druggists. The price is $2 for large bottles, (quarts.) One bottU 
generally effeots a cure. If you can get the medicine prepared at home, we 
prefer that you should do so, as it would save you some time. If you cannot 
get it prepared in your town enclose to us $2 and we will send the medicine to 
you by express. If you know of any person afflicted with this terrible disease, 
you may save their life, and be the means of restoring them to health, by allow- 
ing them this prescription. 



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